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How will you be assessed?AssessmentStudents are required to start a blog relating to themes and topics arising in this module. Students should use the blog as both a forum to comment on arising themes and also as a study aid collating relevant films and texts that can be found online. All posts should contain references which should be hyper-linked directly to the texts online where possible.The following posts will form the coursework.

Post One – Compile a set of 5 film clips (these can be embedded from youtube, vimeo or any other online video platform) which illustrate some of the defining moments of cinema pre 1930′s accompanied by a 100 word commentary on each clip. 10% of total grade.

Post Two – What makes an Auteur – What makes a filmmaker an Auteur? Compile a set of at least 3 films which demonstrate the auteur qualities of a director of your choice accompanied by a commentary of at least 500 words. 15% of total grade.

Post Three – Select two or more films of your choice and discuss the manner in which they either conform or subvert hollywood / mainstream filmmaking standards and techniques in at least 500 words. 10% of total grade.

To be completed by the end of week 6 1PM 08/3/13Tuesday, 5 February 13

How will you be assessed?

Post Four – With reference to at least two films discuss the manner in which ideologies are expressed explicitly and implicitly in at least 500 words. 15% of total grade.

Post Five – Write a 750 word review of a film released within the past year, you may also want to include clips, trailers and stills. 20% of total grade.

To be completed by the end of week 9 1PM 29/3/13

Post Six – Write a 2000 word critical essay on a topic of your choosing which relates to any of the themes arising on the course. Before writing the essay you should discuss your chosen topic with your lecturer, this can be done in the tutorials in week 8 + 9 30% of total grade.

To be completed by the Wednesday of week 12 1PM 26/4/13

Tuesday, 5 February 13

What will you study?

Week 1 - Introduction to module

Week 2- Early Cinema - Lumiere Brothers, Eisenstien, Vertov Screening- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Week3 - German Expressionism

Week 4- Auteur theory, Bazin and the Nouvelle Vague Screening - Weekend

Week 5 - Counter Cinema - Third Cinema, Dogme 95

Week 6 - Hitchcock Screening - Hitchcock film TBACoursework - submission of posts 1-3


What will you study?

Week 7 Wartime propaganda and film – national identity, nostalgia

Week 8 - The sociology of the cinema – attendance/the event of cinema going; audiences and film fandom Screening - Went the day well

Week 9- Film Noir Coursework - submission of posts 4-5

Week 10 - The Ideology of film Screening - Scenes From a Marriage

Week 11 - Film in the future - Collaborative filmmaking, film as an evolving text

Week 12 - Bank Holiday Coursework - submission of post 6


1. Name the highest grossing film of 2012?

2. Name the highest grossing film to date?

3. Which film received the most nominations for the 84th Academy Awards in 2012?

4. ‘Nightcall’ by Kavinsky, ‘Under your spell’ by Desire and ‘A Real Hero’ by College are all tracks featured in which film?

Film Quiz


5. Which Film is this image taken from and who directed it?


6. Which Film is the this image taken from and who directed it?


7. Name the film and the actor who provides the voice of this character?


8. Name the film and actor this is from?


9. Name the effect which Hitchcock is describing


10. If the first rule of cinema and society were to be “You do not talk about BS4305” what would the second rule be?

11. Which of these films was not directed by Francois Truffaut?a. The 400 blowsb. Breathlessc. Jules and Jim


a. Formalist Film Theory

b. Realist Film Theory

c. Psychoanalytical Film Theory

d. Structuralist Film Theory

e. Feminist Film Theory

a.Focuses on how viewer identifies with the film

b. Focuses on how film can reproduce reality

c. Focuses on how women are portrayed in film

d. Focuses on technical aspects of film

e. How codes and conventions convey meaning

13. Name the director of the recent film ‘Amour’

14. What is a ‘Best Boy Grip’

12. Connect the theory to the definition


15. What phrase is used to describe the staging of a scene through the arrangement of everything that the audience sees?

16.Which of the following lenses would make the distances between foreground and background appear the greatest?a. zoomb. fisheyec. wide angle

17. Chiaroscuro relates to what?

18. Who described documentary film as the ‘creative treatment of actuality’a. Vertov b. Flaherty c. Grierson


19. The systematic sequencing shots and the consistency of direction on screen are two of the main strategies of what?

20. Name the journal co-founded and edited by Andre Bazin?

21. Who wrote the hugely influential essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’?

22. What type of film did David Cameron try to persuade the British Film Industry to focus on last year?


23. Name the following film


24. Name the following film


Fin


1. Name the highest grossing film of 2012?The Avengers

2. Name the highest grossing film to date?Avatar

3. Which film received the most nominations for the 84th Academy Awards in 2012?Hugo

4. ‘Nightcall’ by Kavinsky, ‘Under your spell’ by Desire and ‘A Real Hero’ by College are all tracks featured in which film?Drive

Film Quiz


5. Which Film is the this image taken from and who directed it?The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman


6. Which Film is the this image taken from and who directed it?Pi - Darren AronofskyTuesday, 5 February 13

7. Name the film and the actor who provides the voice of this character?Antz - Woody Allan


8. Name the film and actor this is from?La Haine - Vincent Cassel


9. Name the effect which Hitchcock is describing

The Kuleshov effect


10. If the first rule of cinema society were to be “You do not talk about BS4305” what would the second rule be?“You do not talk about BS4305”

11. Which of these films was not directed by Francois Truffaut?a. The 400 blowsb. Breathlessc. Jules and Jim


a. Formalist Film Theory

b. Realist Film Theory

c. Psychoanalytical Film Theory

d. Structuralist Film Theory

e. Feminist Film Theory

d

b

a

e

c

13. Name the director of the recent film ‘Amour’Michael Haneke

14. What is a ‘Best Boy Grip’Lighting assistant

12. Connect the theory to the definition


15. What phrase is used to describe the staging of a scene through the arrangement of everything that the audience sees?Mise en Scene16.Which of the following lenses would make the distances between foreground and background appear the greatest?a. zoomb. fisheyec. wide angle

17. Chiaroscuro relates to what?Lighting18. Who described documentary film as the ‘creative treatment of actuality’a. Vertov b. Flaherty c. Grierson


19. The systematic sequencing shots and the consistency of direction on screen are two of the main strategies of what?Continuity Editing20. Name the journal co-founded and edited by Andre Bazin?Cahiers du Cinema21. Who wrote the hugely influential essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’?Laura Mulvey22. What type of film did David Cameron try to persuade the British Film Industry to focus on last year? Mainstream and Commercial


23. Name the following filmFesten24. Name the following filmBreathless


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